Amazon addicts and people who obsessively track packages may know this already, but pasting the tracking number into Google and hitting search will bring up a link to go directly to the package status page on whichever carrier has the package, saving you the hassle of figuring out which carrier has your package, visiting their site, and then pasting in the tracking number there.

This trick works for USPS, UPS, FedEx, On-Trac, and a few other national carriers, but if your package is in the hands of a small company or a courier service, your mileage may vary. It's particularly useful if you have multiple tracking numbers from a series of orders and some of them are being shipped UPS while others are FedEx and others are USPS.

You don't have to care: just make a list of the tracking numbers and paste them into your browser search bar or omnibar and press enter to find out where your package is.